Team U.S. blog: DaMarques Johnson on episode No. 7 of "TUF"

MMAjunkie.com blogaholics of the vast cyberspace world – a rather
uneventful episode 7 showcased the fighter talents of “Red Rocket” Richie Whitson vs. Ross “Who wrote on me boots?” Pearson – a fun and anticipated matchup of a young banger (Richie) and the more refined brawler and scary looking Ross.

Going into the fight the U.S. team, though we had lost Frankie Lester, felt our team finding their stride as a team and coming together and functioning as a team, minus Jason Dent and Jason Pierce.

The “Bash Room,” as my room was dubbed, wasn’t the cool-kid spot to be where only the arrogant loud mouths reside to gossip like seventh grade schoolgirls about each others’ shortcomings. The facts of the matter is the “Bash Room” and “Bash Brothers” (Team U.S. minus Dent and Pierce because they chose not to come in because they hated Cameron Dollar) was the biggest room in the house next to the Brits’ room upstairs and was a mellow, fun place to be.

I think all of you fairly educated people who will read this blog and watched the show are beginning to see the type of person Pierce actually is. By now the world – or those that choose to watch and follow the show – can see the type of person he really is. The editing has actually been very nice to him.

Maybe my view is jaded by what is coming up the next few episodes. However, you can see that he isn’t in “The Ultimate Fighter” house to fight – especially to fight David Faulkner. Coach Dan Henderson put it nicely for the sake of the TV show, though Cyrille Diabate was a little more to the point in calling him a thorn in his side. I will leave it at that until next week. I hope every little get-over tactic he has used will be aired for the public to see.

I hope you (the viewing public) are starting to see the type of people we on Team U.S. really are.

Cameron, the young overly emotional outspoken kid.

Frank the the toothless brawler who loves to fight just a little less than he loves his beautiful little baby girl Jordan.

Mark “Meat Missile” Miller, a hard-nosed worker bee that will fight until the ability is taken away from him via being unconscious from a choke or submission. He also can’t wait to get back to his “Moo-Moo” – that’s what he calls his daughter.

Richie, the rookie scrapper that doubled as a fishermen.

“Tino,” the smart kid and cook of the house, and myself. This to me is the Team U.S. that the editing won’t let you see. Let’s be real with ourselves: If I took a camera and videotaped your day-to-day life and conversations what would you say?

If you drink, what would you say after you were intoxicated? What would we see? What would you say?

Let me break it down for you like this: “The Ultimate Fighter” house is beautiful million dollar house, but that’s all it is. The house is just a room with beds in it.

Living in the house is much like the rehab clinics I used to visit my mother in. All you have is the people that you are surrounded by. It’s not meant to be a fun, luxury place to live. It keeps the weather off of you and that’s about it.

The hot tub was the petri dish that dealt out all the infections that have gone around the house – note Faulkner and Peirce sitting in there with their diseased legs.

To answer some people’s questions, the show is not rigged, I assure you. If all the fights were decided on paper, most fights in our sport wouldn’t be worth having. That’s why we do fight and don’t trust the paper.

Next week will be big, and you will see how big of vajay-jay Pierce can be and the kind of character that Team U.S. is made out of.

Sorry again MMAjunkie.com monkeys for this blog being late. I have to outsource my internet connection, lol. I will make it up to you all next week some how.

How about some Q & A until then?

Team U.S. fighter DaMarques Johnson blogs each Thursday for MMAjunkie.com. Johnson (11-6) is a Utah-based fighter who recently entered his fifth year as a professional fighter. Catch him on “The Ultimate Fighter: U.S. vs. U.K.” each Wednesday night (10 p.m. ET/PT) on Spike TV.